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thanks for joining us. >> thank you, ray. >> brown: you can get more online about this year's most promising gadgets, as well as some disappointments, from guest tech blogger rob pegoraro. that's on the "rundown." >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. bell come back, jae, jae. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: so afghanistan, the president met with hamid karzai at the white house. david what do you make of this announcement or sense now that they going to try to get u.s. troops out of a combat role quicker than expected. >> i guess i'm mostly impressed by how little resistance there is to us hitting the exit. some of it budgetary, you can't afford it i guess i have two concerns. one is what happens to school girls there. if the taliban takes over part of the country and second, and this goes to the whole mood of the country right now, suppose something happens and we have to do something express-- expensive arou
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>> first of all, they've already used >> first of all, they use it. they already used it, we know, just a few months ago. the whole country was in their safe rooms. >> warner: so they know how it works, and they've used it? >> hopefully not to use it again. >> warner: avram was referring to the conflict last november, when radical palestinian groups in hamas-controlled gaza fired rockets into tel aviv, sending residents scrambling to their shelters. avram was repairing this safe room after it failed inspection because it wasn't airtight. >> but we can fix it. they will survive the next war. >> warner: if you've got enough lead time. >> that's true. >> warner: ensuring enough lead time is the job of israel's intelligence community. >> it would be hard to describe the extent of sources, manpower, money that was poured into israeli attempts to understand what is happening in syria. >> warner: ronen bergman is military and intelligence correspondent for israel's largest daily newspaper, "yedioth ahronoth." he says israel has been spying intently on the sy
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thank you for being with us. tell us first about swartz. the impact he ha on the web and on people who used the web. >> well, it was enormous. if he had done nothing but coinvent r.s.s. when he was a teenager, that alone would be an achievement to assure his place in history. he went on to do one thing after another. the thing about him, the thing that sets him apart from so many other people with his kind of talent is that he devoted seemingly exclusively tomaki the world a better place, to political causes and social causes while other people were looking to get rich with their skills. he seemed to think nothing or next to nothing about that. it was all about what he could do for other people. >> warner: he helped found a lobbying organization to lobby for certain causes like greater openness on the internet. >> right. demand progress. this is something that last year played a crucial role in defeating a piece of ledge lyings that would have added a censorship layer, a censorship regime to the internet. in the name of protecting copyright
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he joins us from new york. doctor, why is it important to be able to look at living players rather than at autopsies? what's the significance? >> generally the brain gets damaged gradually over time. what our hope is to problems early on so we can protect a healthy brain rather than wait until there's extensive damage. >> brown: just fill in the picture a little bit for us in lehman's terms. what is it that you're looking at in the brain? what do you look for after there's been concussion or repeated hits? >> what we're looking for are tiny abnormal protein deposits that collect in areas of the brain that control muscle movement, that control mood, control thinking and memory. and what we've done is studied this extensively in alzheimers patients. now for the first time we've looked at professional athletes who have had concussions, who have had some of these symptoms. we see a pattern that we'd expect from autopsies >> brown: tell me more about the pattern. what happens? what do you see? >> what we see is clek
he joins us from new york. doctor, why is it important to be able to look at living players rather than at autopsies? what's the significance? >> generally the brain gets damaged gradually over time. what our hope is to problems early on so we can protect a healthy brain rather than wait until there's extensive damage. >> brown: just fill in the picture a little bit for us in lehman's terms. what is it that you're looking at in the brain? what do you look for after there's been...
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gave us an enormous economic advantage. and that's because our parents and great grandparents built these great ports a atsirpor and so forth. >> but that was then. rp this is now. across the industrialized world in places like china and germany, high speed railroads and gleaming new airports, and here in the united states? an infrastructure so outdated that it will take some 2 toy-- 2.2 trillion to fix it, according to the american society of civil nears: -- engineers. there are many reasons behind this grim picture but one reason some experts tell us is how long it takes to approve such projects. >> if you want to understand what's happening, or what is to the happening to infrastructure in america, take a look at the bridge, an 81-year-old mile long structure that connects new jersey to staten island and forms a critical part of the region's transportation grid. it has also become a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences. because of the bridges height or lack of it, the newer generation of bigger ships th
gave us an enormous economic advantage. and that's because our parents and great grandparents built these great ports a atsirpor and so forth. >> but that was then. rp this is now. across the industrialized world in places like china and germany, high speed railroads and gleaming new airports, and here in the united states? an infrastructure so outdated that it will take some 2 toy-- 2.2 trillion to fix it, according to the american society of civil nears: -- engineers. there are many...
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it has been with us for two years now. it's a two percentage point cut in payroll taxes that affects every working american pain typical work who are makes $50,000, that's $1,000 a year in more after-tax income they have because of this holiday, but it was temporary. it was designed to be temporary beep always knew it would go away eventually. and the question was would it be extended for one more year? would there be offsetting stimulus measures to help the economy get along without it? neither of those thin tha happened. this thing has gone way as scheduled so when the people get the first paycheck in 2013, it will be a little less, a little lighter. >> woodruff: let's talk about the income tax hike. the president wanted int on income over $250,000. tended up on over $450,000 for families. what percentage of americans are actually going to be hit? >> a pretty small sliver, 0.7% affect bide the income tax increase. there are other aspects to this deal that increases taxes on americans who make over $250,000, more like 2%
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used to be around 33% of income. we've also included a temporary provision that takes account of the fact that we have fannie mae and freddie mac undergirding most of the market now and we'll allow for a transition as congress and others consider how to reform those entities. >> warner: have you been able to quantify how many people today are getting mortgages though their total debt-- i'm thinking particularly student debt which didn't used to be a huge factor but is for a lotof yong people now-- how many people are getting mortgages for that, say 50% total debt that just will be shut out now. >> so giving the criteria i've dried, not only the 43 debt ratio but the other provision we have crunched the numbers and it appears all of the existing mortgage market would be covered by this rule. so we don't think that we're going to be crimping lending and we don't mean to be and don't want to be crimping lending. we've drawn them real carefully tovoid that. with stronger consumer protections and clearer rules of the road
used to be around 33% of income. we've also included a temporary provision that takes account of the fact that we have fannie mae and freddie mac undergirding most of the market now and we'll allow for a transition as congress and others consider how to reform those entities. >> warner: have you been able to quantify how many people today are getting mortgages though their total debt-- i'm thinking particularly student debt which didn't used to be a huge factor but is for a lotof yong...
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delaware's governor, democrat jack markell joins us now. he also serves as the current chair of the national governors' association. governor, welcome. two years ago you tried and failed to pass a law requiring new background checks on private sales at gun shows. do you think that newtown changed the politics of gun control so dramatically that you can now pass even greater restrictions? >> well, i think it may have. that's exactly what we're trying to do. two years ago i was probably only govern the countryto add vaps any gun safety legislation. i introduced four bills three of them got passed. one of them about reporting to to those with mental illnesses to the national database. that's made a big impact. as you mentioned the one that failed was the gun show loophole. but here's the bottom line. you know, if you go to a licensed dealer, you have to have a background check. 40% of sales people don't go through a licensed dealer. when you have 40% of sales not requiring that background check, the system is broken. we need to fix it. >> brow
delaware's governor, democrat jack markell joins us now. he also serves as the current chair of the national governors' association. governor, welcome. two years ago you tried and failed to pass a law requiring new background checks on private sales at gun shows. do you think that newtown changed the politics of gun control so dramatically that you can now pass even greater restrictions? >> well, i think it may have. that's exactly what we're trying to do. two years ago i was probably...
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based on your reporting, what can you tell us about this attack today? >> well, gwen, israeli officials are completely mum about this, but i've been able to confirm from a u.s. official that, in fact, the attack took place, that hit was a convoy of trucks carrying s.a.-17 antimissile components or the missiles themselves headed toward leban lebanon. the official i talked to said it actually occurred fairly near damascus but that the missiles or missile parts were already in hezbollah's hands. in other words, that this was not a syrian army convoy taking the weapons to hezbollah, the militant shiite group in lebanon, but hezbollah already had possession of them. if that turns out to be the case, it says a lot about hezbollah's actions and activities in syria right now. >> ifill: so a u.s. official has confirmed this to you. the syrian state television has said this happened. but israel's been awfully mum on this. what is -- why are they being so quiet about it? >> well, gwen, there's no percenge in it forsra t confirm this. first of all, the confirm that
based on your reporting, what can you tell us about this attack today? >> well, gwen, israeli officials are completely mum about this, but i've been able to confirm from a u.s. official that, in fact, the attack took place, that hit was a convoy of trucks carrying s.a.-17 antimissile components or the missiles themselves headed toward leban lebanon. the official i talked to said it actually occurred fairly near damascus but that the missiles or missile parts were already in hezbollah's...
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on the use of intimidation, should have used influence, i think would have been more appropriate. i should not have said dumb or stupid, because i understand, appreciate there are different views in these things. >> reporter: south carolina republican lindsey graham argued that hagel's larger record on middle east policy is equally troubling. >> do you believe that the sum total of all of your votes, refusing to sign a letter to the e.u. asking hezbollah to be designated a terrorist organization, being one of 22 to vote to designate the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist organization, being one of two on two occasions to vote against sanctions that this body was trying to impose on iran, the statements you made about palestinians and about the jewish lobby, all that together. that the image you created is one of sending the worst possible signal to our enemies and friends at one of the most critical times in world history? >> no, i would not agree with that. because i have taken actions and made statements very clear as to what i believe hezbollah and hamas are as a terrorist
on the use of intimidation, should have used influence, i think would have been more appropriate. i should not have said dumb or stupid, because i understand, appreciate there are different views in these things. >> reporter: south carolina republican lindsey graham argued that hagel's larger record on middle east policy is equally troubling. >> do you believe that the sum total of all of your votes, refusing to sign a letter to the e.u. asking hezbollah to be designated a terrorist...
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that was big for us. the bbc was based in england, does that mean they were driven by english coverage. cnn started in atlanta, did they have a bias towards the south? no. that happens to be where we're headquartered. it happens to be where the impetus this for this came from. but this is a long time plan for global expansion. we have a balkans network, we have a swahili network, a turkish network. we have children's programming and sports. this is a key and very much needed part for that expansion. >> but you're best known -- or co-best known, if that's a word, for the arabic language service and people who watch this very closely, who've made academic study of it say there are two kettles of fish, al jazeera in arabic and al jazeera in english. how are they different and how would you explain that to an american who has heard a lot of things that haven't been complementary about the arabic language service. >> the difference is who's your audience. to be honest it's targeted towards an audience and the
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using unmanned drones to kilterror suspects. >> there is nothing in international law that bans the use of remotely piloted aircraft for this purpose or that prohibits us from using lethal force against our enemies outside of an active battlefield. al qaeda has been left with just a handful of capable leaders and operatives. with continued pressure is on the path to its destruction. >> woodruff: both brennan and hagel will now prepare for their confirmation hearing likely to be scheduled later this winter. so wha so what do the president's choices tell us about his second term national security priorities? for that, we turn to jessica tuchman mathews, president of the carnegie endowment for international peace. she's held posts at the state department and on the national security council staff. and reuel gerecht, a former case officer at the c.i.a. he's now a senior fellow with the foundation for the defense of democracies. let's step back from the two individuals we just saw judy talked about there. tell us what these selections tell us about this administration's foreign policy, natio
using unmanned drones to kilterror suspects. >> there is nothing in international law that bans the use of remotely piloted aircraft for this purpose or that prohibits us from using lethal force against our enemies outside of an active battlefield. al qaeda has been left with just a handful of capable leaders and operatives. with continued pressure is on the path to its destruction. >> woodruff: both brennan and hagel will now prepare for their confirmation hearing likely to be...
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guns that are designed for military use bought all over this country and often used for mass murder. >> sreenivasan: feinstein's proposal would ban the sale, transportation, importation or manufacturing of more than 150 specifically named firearms as well as certain semi-automatic rifles, handguns and shotguns; limit ammunition magazines to ten rounds; grandfather weapons legally owned on the date of enactment and, exempt over 900 weapons used for hunting or sporting activity. in response, the national rifle association released a statement that said, "the american people know gun bans do not work and we are confident congress will reject senator feinstein's wrong-headed approach." the effort faces long odds in the republican-controlled house, and in the senate, where some democrats do not support expanded gun control. feinstein acknowledged it would be a tough sell despite 20 children and six adults being killed in the december mass shooting at a school in newtown, connecticut. >> this is really an uphill road. if anyone asked today, "can you win this?" the answer is, we don't know.
guns that are designed for military use bought all over this country and often used for mass murder. >> sreenivasan: feinstein's proposal would ban the sale, transportation, importation or manufacturing of more than 150 specifically named firearms as well as certain semi-automatic rifles, handguns and shotguns; limit ammunition magazines to ten rounds; grandfather weapons legally owned on the date of enactment and, exempt over 900 weapons used for hunting or sporting activity. in...
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thanks for joining us. >> thanks, hari. >> suarez: our next story comes from india, where entrepreneurs are turning crippling power grid problems into opportunity. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro filed this report for our "agents for change" series. >> reporter: last year, when india suffered a massive power blackout-- the worst in its history-- television anchorman rajdeep sardesai happened to be lunching with the top government official in charge of power, as the news came in. >> for the next hour, we didn't stop the lunch. we went ahead with the lunch. the power minister was lunching with a journalist rather than being there in his office directing operations. that in itself epitomized for me that it wasn't being treated as a national emergency but another day in the office. >> reporter: despite billions of dollars in new infrastructure, power interruptions are chronic in india. consumers large and small rely on back up generators, at huge cost to both the environment and economy says energy exp
thanks for joining us. >> thanks, hari. >> suarez: our next story comes from india, where entrepreneurs are turning crippling power grid problems into opportunity. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro filed this report for our "agents for change" series. >> reporter: last year, when india suffered a massive power blackout-- the worst in its history-- television anchorman rajdeep sardesai happened to be lunching with the top government official in charge of power,...
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. >> i think there always is a danger of over-using them. again, i think there have been several cases, ones i'm aware of which have disrupted people active involved in plotting. but i would also say why pack takens, for example are, unhappy with the americans. it's complicated. there are a raifnl of factors. it's not just drones. there have been a range of issues including the raid against bin laden that did so. >> announcer: is there evidence of more direct evidence that there is that kind of blow-back that you think is happening? >> well look i spend a lot of time lobbying congress and members of the hous house and se armed services committee. there is a lot of worries there, especially about the c.i.a. program and the possibility of repercussions and reprisals against american soldiers in these parts of the world and also the c.i.a. in particular pulling the united states into conflicts that will be very difficult to get out of. that's why, especially as you start looking into places like north africa, mali, mauritania, some other places
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history caught up to us. that never happened. and it's now moot because he has made a set of judgments that are inexcusable, that are reprehensible and, i think, is not long for remaining as the head of state in syria. >> reporter: republican senator john mccain supports the kerry nomination. but he again criticized president obama for not taking stronger action against the assad regime. >> we are sowing the wind in syr, and we're gog reap the whirlwind. and that whirlwind will be the increased presence of al-qaida and islamist groups, which are now flooding into syria, as you know. and we can do a lot more without putting american boots on the ground, and we can prevent this further slaughter and massacre and inhumanity. otherwise, we will be judged very, very harshly by history. >> i have complete understanding ofwhere you're coming from on this and knowing your frustration and know what you're trying to say about it. what i think everybody worries about, john, is that if you have a complete implosion of the state, nobody has c
history caught up to us. that never happened. and it's now moot because he has made a set of judgments that are inexcusable, that are reprehensible and, i think, is not long for remaining as the head of state in syria. >> reporter: republican senator john mccain supports the kerry nomination. but he again criticized president obama for not taking stronger action against the assad regime. >> we are sowing the wind in syr, and we're gog reap the whirlwind. and that whirlwind will be...
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thank you for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> macarthur foundation. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by wpbt >> this is n.b.r. >> susie: good evening, everyone. i'm susie gharib. tonight, a special look at innovation and competitiveness in america. we introduce you to watson, the i.b.m. super computer that's leading u.s. innovation into the future. >> tom: good evening. i'm tom hudson. we also meet some smaller all- american businesses surviving and thriving as the global marketplace gets more competitive. >> susie: we have that and more tonight on "n.b.r." >> tom: innovation and competitiveness. these two words attract
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there's no use for those things. and a bunch of scholars got together last monday and tuesday at johns hopkins at a symposium and looked at different issues, they looked at the evidence and they recommended banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines. >> brown: i want to bring in dr. lori gold. from a mental health perspective, what did you hear good and bad that advances this? >> well, i think taking advantagef this opportunity to increase resources for mental health, resources in training for mental health to get regulations on board that create party in mental health insurance, to talk about guns in terms of people who are dangerous as opposed to gun and the mentally ill. i think it's been a big disservice to people who struggle with mental illness that these two subjects have been linked because the majority of gun violence in this country has nothing to do with mental illness and most people who are mentally ill are not violent. so to take it out of that context and put it back into a context of people w
there's no use for those things. and a bunch of scholars got together last monday and tuesday at johns hopkins at a symposium and looked at different issues, they looked at the evidence and they recommended banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines. >> brown: i want to bring in dr. lori gold. from a mental health perspective, what did you hear good and bad that advances this? >> well, i think taking advantagef this opportunity to increase resources for mental health,...
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he invited us in, his girlfriend who later became his wife made us dinner. i went back out about two years later to write a chapter of a book i wrote that richard was very encouraging about to profile him and how he went about -- the chapter of the book is called what it takes to write. how he thought differently about politics. it was just a neat experience for someone like me, something i'll always treasure. i saved the e-mail he wrote to me thanking me for sending him a copy of my book, sent it to my wife, we both saved it. it was a meaningful thing for a political reporter like myself. >> ifill: let me ask this final question. reading and write t writing of richard ben cramer that you think joe could inform young writers and aspiring young political journalists today. >> one of the things i've learned is cynicism passes for mediocre. we've gotten to the point where writing a positive story about a politician is a tough thing to do, especially for young reporters, and we need to be more humane and balanced and respectful of the people who seek to lead us.
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they started asking us questions. when they realized that we stayed with the mutra hadeems, they took us with them to gendarmery to find out more abo us. >> reporter: on a barren wasteland across town, a sign that both sides in this war can be cruel. and civilians are the ones who suffer. the well is spattered with blood-- the malian army is said to be responsible. you can just make out a body at the bottom of the pit. the old man shows us a second well. the french international federation for human rights says, in the last two weeks, malian soldiers in sevare have summarily murdered 11 tuaregs and arabs, accusing them of being jihadists. at least two bodies have been stuffed down these wells. the local people took this red earth and put it down the well to stop the body from smelling. this conflict is entering a very dangerous phase. most of the people i've met so far hate the jihadists. they want to support the malian army, but if the soldiers behave as badly as their enemies, then what is to stop the people from go
they started asking us questions. when they realized that we stayed with the mutra hadeems, they took us with them to gendarmery to find out more abo us. >> reporter: on a barren wasteland across town, a sign that both sides in this war can be cruel. and civilians are the ones who suffer. the well is spattered with blood-- the malian army is said to be responsible. you can just make out a body at the bottom of the pit. the old man shows us a second well. the french international...
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lindsey hilsum, thanks for joining us. i want to ask you first about the reaction in mali to what's now happening in neighboring algeria. is the connection obvious? >> the connection is very obvious. the french know that they have kicked the hornet's nest. but at the same time, what they believe is that the situation would have been worse if they had not moved. what they say is that these jihadists were preparing to move south down the road to the maliian capital. if they had taken the capital than they would have controlled all of the country so it would have been like afghanistan was under the taliban: a whole country controlled by jihadists who would use it as a base for terrorism across the world. so although there is a lot of concern, anxiety, and upset obviously about what has happened in algeria from the french point of view they're preventing a worse outcome. >> brown: give us a sense of the fighting now, particularly in and around the town of diable. what kind of resistance are the french meeting? >> well, the jih
lindsey hilsum, thanks for joining us. i want to ask you first about the reaction in mali to what's now happening in neighboring algeria. is the connection obvious? >> the connection is very obvious. the french know that they have kicked the hornet's nest. but at the same time, what they believe is that the situation would have been worse if they had not moved. what they say is that these jihadists were preparing to move south down the road to the maliian capital. if they had taken the...
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joining us from the capitol joining us from the capitol with the very latest is todd zwillich. he's washington correspondent for "the takeaway" on public radio international and a regular guest on the newshour. so todd, you're back with us again. six hours to go until midnight. progress reported but still to deal. >> senate republicans, judy, the latest thing that has happened is senate republicans came out of a conference meeting with their leader, with mitch mcconnell all sounding positive. they all echoed what you had in the piece there from mcconnell saying they were very, very close to sequester the automatic spending cuts remain an outstanding issue. and kind of got thrown into the mix again today. you know, the president in that appearance in the executive office building today in front of a supportive crowd, not really a press conference, more of like a minirally, talked about the sequester and his desire to have any delay in the sequester paid for with revenue increases. you know, i talked to a few house members just a few moments ago. not only ot tone of the president
joining us from the capitol joining us from the capitol with the very latest is todd zwillich. he's washington correspondent for "the takeaway" on public radio international and a regular guest on the newshour. so todd, you're back with us again. six hours to go until midnight. progress reported but still to deal. >> senate republicans, judy, the latest thing that has happened is senate republicans came out of a conference meeting with their leader, with mitch mcconnell all...